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![Jiayuguan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Jiayuguan%2C_China_Bebop_Drone_2015-09-17T153652%2B0000_42DA9A.jpg)

Prefecture-level city in Gansu, China

# Jia­y­u­g­uan

Jiayuguan City is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Gansu province, with a population of 312,663 as of the 2020 census.

[Plan a trip to Jiayuguan](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Jiayuguan) [From Lanzhou](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Lanzhou&to=Jiayuguan)

## Every way there

- Lanzhou → Jiayuguan Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/lanzhou-to-jiayuguan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Lanzhou&to=Jiayuguan)
- Chengdu → Jiayuguan Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/chengdu-to-jiayuguan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Chengdu&to=Jiayuguan)
- Dunhuang → Jiayuguan Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dunhuang-to-jiayuguan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dunhuang&to=Jiayuguan)

The field note

What is in and around Jiayuguan, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Jiayuguan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jiayuguan)

What Jiayuguan has

- Yes Scheduled flights Jiayuguan (JGN), 11 km as the crow flies
- No Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- No Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Yes Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- No Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- No Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Yes: you can plan it here today · Not yet: we know a source but do not plan with it yet · No: no source we know of.

39.773°, 98.288°

Compared with the 231,853 people in the sixth national census in 2010, there was an increase of 80,810 people, with an average annual increase of 3.04%. Its built-up area was home to 768,274 inhabitants made of Jiayuguan City and Suzhou urban district of Jiuquan City now being conurbated.

It is named after the nearby Jiayu Pass, the largest and most intact pass of the Great Wall of China.

How locals move

## Getting around Jiayuguan the local way

- Go next July 1 Glacier (Qiyi Glacier) - enormous 500 meter glacier, day trip tours available, renting a taxi costs about ¥500 (2009) for the 130 km trip.

From [Wikivoyage: Jiayuguan](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Jiayuguan), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiayuguan_City), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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